Alliance | Jaedia's Menagerie

Long time no see. So I’ve been raiding the Steam sales, getting all excited for Guild Wars 2, and in the meantime I’ve got back into WoW. I had a random urge to play a lowbie Warrior, so I did just that and enjoyed relaxing with an alt and guild chat so much that I picked my Draenei Mage back up. Now I have offered to help Mr. Reliq recruit some and I’m yet again considering moving my Priest over. The Priest who has been a Blood Elf since early TBC. Who I’ve done almost everything with since then. The idea of race changing her is a difficult one because she is a Blood Elf Shadow Priest to me, but the only place I want to be is Harvest Moon which is where my friends are. ((Incidentally, if you’re on EU servers and interested in joining a relaxing, cheerful little guild with plans for casual raiding and achievement runs and such, do get in touch!!)) I had a little think and I checked out how she might look. It’s looking like Human would be the winning race for Seithir if she joined the Blue Team.

See, I don’t RP with her. She has no backstory. But even so I have an idea of her. She’s a Blood Elf, and we all know what Blood Elves are like. Vain.. Obsessed with magic.. Perhaps a little up themselves and bitchy? That’s the idea I have of Seithir anyway. Well then she’s most definitely not a Draenei, as much as the waggle is the sex, and she is also firmly a Shadow Priest so doesn’t particularly suit Night Elf either which leaves Human. I think she could suit Human.

My last problem is that I’ve always played her with Dan’s Paladin. My first guild on my Priest was Capo, where the first guild instance I did was with Dan. If I separated my Priest from his Paladin, I would not enjoy playing her. From the moment we met and he called me an idiot, we’ve played together on these characters. We were on these characters when we decided to meet, and when we moved guilds together. Sure, we’ve been in separate guilds before, and the changes in Mists will mean we could still play together cross-server but not cross-faction. So while I believe I have made a decision on which race she belongs in on the Blue Team, it still kind of depends on what Dan decides to do in the next couple of weeks. I’m keeping my fingers crossed because I’d really like to put her in Harvest Moon. The first guild I’ve felt a real sense of loyalty to.

Faction Today’s post is actually influenced by 2 other blog posts. Arioch talked about how she feels more like a stranger playing on alliance, compared to the familiarity of the horde. Whereas Pike talks about how she loves playing both equally, and something about a guardian angel Linux penguin…

Personally, when I first started playing this game, the people I was playing with were horde on this PvP server. I wanted to be a night elf hunter on an RP server I think, in fact, I wanted to be a paladin originally, but I ended up being an undead warlock, because at this point there were no blood elves, and undead was the least stupid looking race in my eyes. Eventually grew tired of warlock, it was easy to level to the point of being boring, at endgame it was terrible to play, and I was terrible at it. So, I tried priest. TBC was out so I made my blood elf priest to heal and had such a good time levelling, made some friends from all the pugging I did, and got upto 70 and straight into a raiding guild, as shadow of all things which I never expected to be going but it stuck, I have never had a healing main spec on my priest.

Anyway, fast forward to a few weeks into the Ulduar patch. I was still horde, after.. well I don’t know I can’t remember when TBC was released, but a few years. I decided to make a night elf death knight on a friend’s server to play around with one day when the servers were down, and I went back to it after I’d quit/taken a break from raiding. I loved it, working through the alliance quests in Outland and Northrend for the first time. It felt a little weird being the other faction suddenly but a couple of friends followed me over for a while and I wasn’t alone.

Eventually, I logged into my horde hunter back on Vashj, and I realised I missed my friends, Orgrimmar, the Sunreaver’s Sanctuary, wolf mounts.. and my God the alliance tier 9 set looked so terrible! I particularly missed playing with my boyfriend so I switched back and well, for me, horde feels like home.

I have no ties to either faction, I’m fine playing both. If I rerolled on a random server, where I knew nobody, it’d be a tough one. I like a lot more of the alliance races, and they do have the best mounts, but, I’d miss the horde cities, and being able to play with big fluffy cows, and everything else listed above. I am a hordie, not by sheer dedication, but attachment.

Do you guys have any particular attachments? Which do you prefer playing, horde or alliance? Interested to know the consensus on this one.